I borrowed Leonora Bolt: The Great Gadget Games from a library recently, and my first thought was that the series would be perfect for my book club!
A science-loving protagonist with imaginative, innovative ideas, a secret inventor, an unusual set of friends … it’s full of possibilities! And that’s why we’re going to be reading the first book from the series, Leonora Bolt: Secret Inventor at my book club next month.
Friendship
Leonora Bolt’s friends include an otter, a cook, a sea captain and a boy who washes up on the island. This will be our prompt to write about an unusual friendship we’d love to have. If you could befriend anyone, whom would you befriend and why? How do you think you could help each other?
Inventions
If you are on an island in the middle of nowhere, but you were the smartest person in the world, what would you invent? How would your invention work?
I love working with wacky inventions of all kinds. I have a poem that plays with innovation and invention too, Making a Clone, though the characters in the story aren’t nearly as successful as Leonora Bolt!
Picture Prompts
Picture prompts are a great way to get started on a story of your own, and The Thinking Collection has a couple of inspiring images of machines. We’ll use these, in addition to a few verbal prompts, to write a story of our own.
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